ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - A trial against Dinko Sakic, former commander of a Croatian World War Two concentration camp, will most probably begin in late February or early March. Sakic's court-appointed attorney Ivan Kern was notified
about the beginning of the trial by the president of the Zagreb County Court's panel of judges, Drazen Tripalo. Tripalo will preside the Sakic trial before a seven-men panel consisting of three judges and four lay judges. Sakic was indicted by the Zagreb County state attorney's office on December 14, 1998 for war crimes against civilians. Kern told reporters on Monday he had unofficially learned his appeal on the indictment had been rejected, and that a decision calling the main court hearing would follow. Sakic fled Croatia for Argentina at the end of WW2. He lived there until his extradition last year. Croatia requested his extradition after he told an Argentinean television stati
ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - A trial against Dinko Sakic, former
commander of a Croatian World War Two concentration camp, will most
probably begin in late February or early March.
Sakic's court-appointed attorney Ivan Kern was notified about the
beginning of the trial by the president of the Zagreb County Court's
panel of judges, Drazen Tripalo.
Tripalo will preside the Sakic trial before a seven-men panel
consisting of three judges and four lay judges.
Sakic was indicted by the Zagreb County state attorney's office on
December 14, 1998 for war crimes against civilians.
Kern told reporters on Monday he had unofficially learned his
appeal on the indictment had been rejected, and that a decision
calling the main court hearing would follow.
Sakic fled Croatia for Argentina at the end of WW2. He lived there
until his extradition last year. Croatia requested his extradition
after he told an Argentinean television station that he had been
commander of Jasenovac, an infamous concentration camp in WW2
Croatia.
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